The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History

The incredible story of how a house was witness to German history Telegraph\r\n\r\nA touching picturebook which shows children that large events can have repercussions even in small and unheralded places Wall Street Journal\r\n\r\nA beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Hardings Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.\r\n\r\nOn the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stones throw from the cottages back door. \r\n\r\nThomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.\r\n\r\nAn atmospheric and ultimately uplifting tale with delicate, ethereal images The Financial Times\r\n\r\nPRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE: \r\n\r\nA Radio 4 Book of the Week\r\n\r\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by: \r\nThe Times >> New Statesman >> Daily Express >> Commonweal magazine\r\n\r\nShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015\r\n\r\nLonglisted for the Orwell Prize 2016\r\n\r\nOver 50 five-star reviews on Amazon\r\n\r\nA passionate memoir. - Neil MacGregor\r\n\r\nA superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book. - Tom Holland\r\n\r\nA book that will stay with me for a very long time. - Rachel Joyce\r\n\r\nA superb work of social history. - The Sunday Times \r\n\r\nDiamond brilliant ... an extraordinary book. - Sunday Express\r\n\r\nA deft history of a cabin containing many secrets. - Independent\r\n\r\nA fascinating window on a tumultuous period - Financial Times\r\n\r\nOriginal, personal, moving and uplifting - Literary Review\r\n\r\nThis is a history that is often poignant, sometimes heartening, and never other than intimate. - Spectator\r\n\r\nAn extraordinary book.... Harding has extracted the past from the dust that collects between floorboards and from layers of peeling wallpaper. - Washington Post\r\n\r\nSEE ALSO THOMAS HARDINGS NEW BIOGRAPHY, LEGACY:\r\n\r\nI was riveted: this is a fascinating social history. - Nigella Lawson\r\n\r\nWritten with love and imagination ... a masterclass in historical empathy. - TLS\r\n\r\nNobody quite stirs the soup of historical detail like Harding. - Express